Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

True friends stab you in the front.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Men always want to be a woman's first love — women like to be a man's last romance.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women merely adored.

"An Ideal Husband"

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

"Lady Windermere's Fan"

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.