Oscar Wilde

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."

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

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

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

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

"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."

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

"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."

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

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

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

"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."

"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."

"No good deed goes unpunished."

"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."

"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."