Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about…

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with…

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in…

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when…

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much…

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go…

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known…

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But…

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it…

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to…

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure…

Those whom the gods love grow young…

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family…

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike…

Hatred is blind, as well as love…