Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
I can resist anything except temptation.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
True friends stab you in the front.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I can resist everything except temptation.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
I am not young enough to know everything.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
I can resist everything except temptation.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects.
The heart was made to be broken.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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