Oscar Wilde

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

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

"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 is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force."

"Hearts Live By Being Wounded"

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

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

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

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

"I am not young enough to know everything."

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

"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."

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

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."

"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."

"I drink to separate my body from my soul."

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

"A kiss may ruin a human life"

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."