Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

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

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

"The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time."

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

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

"I am not young enough to know everything."

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions."

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good."

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good."

"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinion."

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

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

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."

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

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death."

"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

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

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."