Mathijs Hendriks > Mathijs's Quotes

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche