Oscar Wilde

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.