OSCAR WILDE

"Don't be afraid to be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

"Don't be afraid to be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping."

"To define is to limit."

"There is no sin except stupidity."

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."

"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."

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

"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."

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."

"I am not young enough to know everything."

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

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

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

"I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after."

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

"No good deed goes unpunished."

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"The heart was made to be broken."

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

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

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."

"I can resist anything except temptation."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."