Oscar Wilde

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

"I am not young enough to know everything."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

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

"I drink to separate my body from my soul."

"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

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

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"

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

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."

"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."

"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."

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

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

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."