Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I am not young enough to know everything.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

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

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.