Oscar Wilde

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

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

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

“A good friend will stab you in the front.”

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

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

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”

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

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”