Oscar Wilde

"Where there is no exaggeration, there is no love, where there is no doubt, there is no understanding."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

"The only certainty in life is that we are all uncertain about everything."

"Happiness is of a serious nature; it is not made for jokes."

"I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

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

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

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"I can resist everything except temptation, and temptation is what makes life worth living."

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

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

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

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."

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

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read."

"There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

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

"I prefer the wit of one, before the wisdom of many."

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

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

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

"The only real difference between men and women is that women are better at reading the small print."