Oscar Wilde

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

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

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."

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

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

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

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

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."

"I am not young enough to know everything."

"The heart was made to be broken."

"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

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

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

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."

"A kiss may ruin a human life"

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

"The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life."

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"