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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Celibacy is the most unusual of all the perversions.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
Duty is what one expects from others.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
True friends stab you in the front.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.