Oscar Wilde

Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work <br /> is new, complex, and vital.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Any place that we love becomes our world.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any <br /> conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into <br /> weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the <br /> ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

Nature is always behind the age

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.