Lewis Morris: There’s a conspiracy against me,
a conspiracy of silence; but what can one do? What should I do?
Oscar Wilde: Join it.
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"
A true friend stabs you in the front.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
"Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
"Either the
wallpaper goes, or I do."
on his
deathbed