Oscar Wilde

This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

One should always be in love. That is the reason why one should never marry.

Man is a being born to believe.

Pessimism, when you are young, is a matter of temperament; when you are old, it is a matter of knowledge.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

I am not at all surprised at the way people are behaving. I am only surprised at the way they are not behaving.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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

The very basis of the aesthetic attitude is the recognition of the truth that Art has no aim but herself.

We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

To get into the best society nowadays, one has to either feed people, amuse people, or shock people.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.