Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am a man of simple tastes, easily satisfied with the best.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I am dying beyond my means.

Many lack the originality to lack originality.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

To define is to limit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

The heart was made to be broken.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.