Oscar Wilde

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

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.”

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

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”

“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.”

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

“Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.”

“It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

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

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”

“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

“In married life three is company and two none.”

“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”

“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”

“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”