Oscar Wilde

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or...”

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

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

“Hearts are made to be broken.”

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“To define is to limit.”

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

“I can believe anything, provided it is incredible.”

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are an...”

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

“For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.”

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

“This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.”

“When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.”

“Everything popular is wrong.”

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.”

“Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

“Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.”

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”