Oscar Wilde

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."

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

"So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray."

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

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

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."

"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."

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

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."

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

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

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."

"The heart was made to be broken."

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."

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

"A kiss may ruin a human life"

"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."