Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.

Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.