Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.