Oscar Wilde
1854-1900. Irish poet and dramatist.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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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.
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