The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.
Genius lasts longer than beauty
Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.
There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.