Oscar Wilde

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one`s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.