Oscar Wilde

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modeling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Hearts are made to be broken.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

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

I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

There is no sin except stupidity.

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

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.