Oscar Wilde

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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

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

"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."

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

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

"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."

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

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

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

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

"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."

"Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire."