Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?

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 is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothing.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher… and that is a good thing for any man.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

[On hooking up romantically with co-stars] It’s understandable. You’re in situations with an actress where you’re supposed to be intimate, physical, and vulnerable with each other, and sometimes feelings get crossed. It’s like you’re away at summer camp and it seems to make sense, but when you go back home, the reality is that it may not be a situation you want to be in.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.

To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

I think I had the best of James [Taylor]. I mean, I was so in love with him. Not with blinders on – I was in love with him because he is a remarkable man, and he gave me a tremendous amount.

Friendship, ‘the wine of life,’ said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

“They stood there pretending to be just friends when all the while everyone in the room could plainly see that they were only existing for each other.

The only time a woman has a true orgasm is when she’s shopping.