Oscar Wilde

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

The only thing that is worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

I dislike everything that is not in good taste, and good taste is simply the art of being able to live with bad taste.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all the talking to himself.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

I am not at all surprised that good people are so unhappy. They have such a dreadful time trying to be good.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

I am not a humanitarian. I am a great admirer of humanity, but I am not a humanitarian.

The only excuse for a bad marriage is that it is a bad marriage.

I never approve of anything. If one can't be brilliant, one should at least be confused.

I am not a man of convictions. I am a man of moods.

The history of women is the history of the tyranny of men.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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