Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Hearts are made to be broken.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

A kiss may ruin a human life

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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

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

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

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

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

No good deed goes unpunished.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Even things that are true can be proved.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

I have no doubt we shall win, but the road is long, and red with monstrous martyrdoms.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Punctuality is the thief of time

Time is a waste of money.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.