Oscar Wilde

Realize your youth while you have it. Don__ squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can__ get into it do that.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

But you don__ really mean to say that you couldn__ love me if my name wasn__ Ernest?GWENDOLEN: But your name is Ernest.JACK: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn__ love me