To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
True friends stab you in the front.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
