Oscar Wilde

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

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others."

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

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

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

"I don't mind dreadful poverty, as long as it is honest."

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

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."

"I never realised what red tulips meant till I saw them beside yellow ones."

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

"An ideal husband is any man who has learned to say 'Yes, dear' at the right moments."

"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no man knows anything about."

"I can forgive Alfred Lord Tennyson for anything, even his poetry."

"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good—far better than at all likely."

"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live."

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."

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

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

"One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age."

"There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy."

"I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."

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

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches."

"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."

"It is the mind that makes the body rich."

"Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else."