Oscar Wilde

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

"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."

"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."

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

"There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope."

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

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

"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."

"True friends stab you in the front."

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

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

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

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

"The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart."

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"

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

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

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

"No good deed goes unpunished."