Quotes About Perspective

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

It would be unfair to expect people to be as remarkable as oneself.

All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

La tragedia de la vejez no consiste en ser viejo, sino en haber sido joven.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Cecily: - La explicación parece satisfactoria, ¿no? Gwendolen: - Sí, siempre que usted le crea. Cecily: - No le creo, pero eso no afecta la belleza de su respuesta

You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.

A mother's love is very touching, of course, but it is often curiously selfish. I mean, there is a good deal of selfishness in it.

What does money matter? Love is more than money.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Bugünlerde herkes her ÅŸeyin fiyat?n? biliyor, fakat hiçbir ÅŸeyin deÄŸerini bilmiyorlar.

I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury.  I hadn't been there since her poor husband's death.  I never saw a woman so altered; she looks quite twenty years younger. 

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. 

No artist has ethical sympathies.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

Man know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde

Gwendolen.  How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes!  Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.

The only thing that sustains one  through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Wer nicht auf seine Weise denkt, denkt überhaupt nicht.

To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life. I