Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
The unread is always better than the unreadable. - Oscar Wilde
The unread is always better than the unreadable.
- Oscar Wilde
Where your life leads you, you must go - Oscar Wilde
Where your life leads you, you must go
But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone. - Oscar Wilde
But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.
you will always love, and you will always be loved - Oscar Wilde
you will always love, and you will always be loved
It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable. - Oscar Wilde
It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out. - Oscar Wilde
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. - Oscar Wilde
This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
I have nothing to declare except my genuis. - Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. - Oscar Wilde
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.
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