Oscar Wilde

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

"An Ideal Husband"

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

True friends stab you in the front.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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

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

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.

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

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

"Lady Windermere's Fan"

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

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

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

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.

I can resist everything except temptation.