#th

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

— Oscar Wilde

#him #himself #his #least #man

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#get #i #i can #only #resist

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#defects #enough #even #everything #forgive

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#little #nowadays #sad #sad thing #thing

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#continue #except #her #love #loved

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#down #everything #except #good #good reputation

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#beethoven #believe #brilliant #german #hitler

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#bed #feather #give #give me #life

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#america #believe #big #big business #business

Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#blocs #both #cannot #clinton #danger