Oscar Wilde

"When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

"It is the duty of a gentleman to talk quite irrespectively of whether any one is listening or not."

"I can drink without eating, but I cannot eat without drinking."

"Now I can die happy. I have seen some fine actresses in my time, but never anyone quite so fine as you."

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"I have a right to nothing but what I earn; and the instant that I stop earning it, I lose the right."

"All arguments are to me obnoxious."

"I love the way you always manage to state the obvious with an air of discovery."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to obtain the occasional necessity of life, but anything further is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a potential future in literature and philosophy alike."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"I think the record speaks for itself."

"Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?"

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

"To create a character in literature one must have the utmost sincerity."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"I never waste time on such people, for they are simply the chaff of society."

"The truth is exactly what you would like it to be if you only had the courage to demand it."

"I have never given anybody real cause for complaint."

"It's a curious thing about the object of true love. It strikes me that it never really changes in essence."

"Nothing is so aggravating as calmness."

"It costs me terrible, my life. It has cost me everything that other men hold dear."

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

"I am bound to say I never knew what I was going to do till I had actually done it."

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."

"I should fancy that the real objection to the lower classes is that they make one feel uncomfortable."

"Most people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."