Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

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

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.