Oscar Wilde

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

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

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

"I am not young enough to know everything."

"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."

"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

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

"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

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

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."