Oscar Wilde

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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

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

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.