What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in dis... - Oscar Wilde

"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."

"Hearts Live By Being Wounded"

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

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

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