Oscar Wilde

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

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

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

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

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

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

“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.”

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

“If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

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

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

“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.”

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”

“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”

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

“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”