Oscar Wilde

“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

“In married life three is company and two none.”

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”

“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”

“Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eterna...”

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”

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

“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”

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

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

“Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.”

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

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

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

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”