Quotes About Perspective

Life is too short to learn German

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

Cecil Graham: What is a cynic? Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.