Oscar Wilde

"I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do the day after."

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

"Do not speak ill of society. Only people do that, and people are beneath society."

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin."

"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"All art is quite useless."

"I have made an important discovery: that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication."

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

"I can explain everything except my own poetry."

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us."

"As one gets older, one has more respect for experience and less for imagination."

"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."

"It is better to desire and not to possess, than to possess and not to desire."

"I have made a great discovery. I like people much better since I have stopped listening to them."

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

"The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them."

"Poverty is a very complicated thing; you must understand it."

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

"Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

"The truth is that the world breaks us all in the end, and afterward we are strong in the broken places."

"It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous ones."

"The good end happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."

"Where there is no exaggeration, there is no love."

"I can make a man famous in three columns of a newspaper."

"There is no accounting for tastes, or for anything else."