Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.