Oscar Wilde

“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.”

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

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

“Men know life too early, women know life too late.”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.”

“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.”

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

“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.”

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.”

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

“Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”

“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”

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

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

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”

“The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.”

“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”

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

“There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.”

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”