Oscar Wilde

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all_x000D_ _x000D_ Than any painted angel could we see_x000D_ _x000D_ The God that is within us!

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

You are Beautiful when you are happy

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.