Oscar Wilde

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”

“Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.”

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of th...”

“The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. The...”

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”

“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

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

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most...”