Oscar Wilde

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

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

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

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

"A kiss may ruin a human life"

"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."

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

"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."

"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."

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

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

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

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

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

"The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study."

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

"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."

"The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."