Oscar Wilde

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

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

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

"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."

"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."

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

"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."

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

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

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

"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."

"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."

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

"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."

"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

"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."

"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."

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

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