Oscar Wilde

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

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

“An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.”

“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”

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

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

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

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

“True friends stab you in the front.”

“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.”

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

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

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

“Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.”

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

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