Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.