Oscar Wilde

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”

“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.”

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

“Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

“There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.”

“One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”

“There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.”

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

“One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”

“Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.”

“London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.”

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

“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.”

“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”

“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

“It is always the unreadable that occurs.”

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

“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”