Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I can resist everything except temptation.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.

Beautiful things always stir the soul — that is their meaning.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

He who laughs in joy is not necessarily one who has lived in joy.

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

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.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.