Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

The heart was made to be broken

There is no sin except stupidity.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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

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

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground

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

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you...it's overwhelming.

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

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.