Oscar Wilde

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.