Oscar Wilde

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“I am tired of myself tonight.
I should like to be somebody else.”

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

“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”

“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”

“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”

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

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

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

“All art is quite useless.”

“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”

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

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

“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”

“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”

“Biography lends to death a new terror.”

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

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

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