Truth Quote by Oscar Wilde — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.'”

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”

“Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.”

“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

“When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself.”

“Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.”