Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

There is no sin except stupidity.

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

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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

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

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

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

America is not a country, it is a world.

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.