Oscar Wilde

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

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

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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

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

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

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

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.