"It is only by not paying one's..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
More by Oscar Wilde
“It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.”
“Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
More on Debt
“It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.”
“The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.”
“[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.”
More on Memory
“The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.”
“Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.”
“Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.”