Oscar Wilde

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure.
I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I am happy in my prison of passion

You are what you read.

Only the shallow know themselves

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

A kiss may ruin a human life

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

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

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.

'Where do bad Americans go?'

'They stay in America'.