Oscar Wilde

"I am not at all in a humour for talking."

"When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

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

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"I like talking to you. Your mind is like a fireworks display."

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

"Always be yourself, unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman."

"The duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."

"Patience is what you have when there are too many witnesses."

"I have the greatest contempt for people who lie and the greatest admiration for liars."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"The cult of beauty requires its victims."

"There is no sin except stupidity."

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy books, which is the same thing."

"One should always be young in spirit even if one is old in years."

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"Every Saint has a past, every sinner has a future."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"The true source of joy is spiritual contentment."

"Time is a waste of money."

"I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do."

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

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

"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."

"I have no sympathy with middle-class morality."

"The smallest act of kindness is the greatest of deeds."

"There is nothing in the world so irresistible as a new fashion."

"As one grows older one becomes wiser and better-looking."