Oscar Wilde

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“True friends stab you in the front.”

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

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

“The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling; save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.”

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

“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”

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

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

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”

“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

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

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”