Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.