Etiquette Quote by Oscar Wilde “The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Etiquette Manners
The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard… — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling--and I think correctly--that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be one damn… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The world is your oyster, they say, so fill it with pearls of semen.” — Trebor Healey Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it,… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.” — John Patrick Hickey Copy Share Image
Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor to liberate,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
