Oscar Wilde

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.