Oscar Wilde

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

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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

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

Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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