Oscar Wilde

what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both."

The good ended hap­pily, and the bad un­hap­pily. That is what Fic­tion means.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

against the purity of a little child the powers of Hell cannot prevail."

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart,

Women are pictures. Men are problems. If you want to know what a woman really means - which, by the way, is always a dangerous thing to do - look at her, don't listen to her.

Chil­dren be­gin by lov­ing their par­ents; as they grow older they judge them; some­times they for­give them.

We can for­give a man for mak­ing a use­ful thing as long as he does not ad­mire it. The only ex­cuse for mak­ing a use­less thing is that one ad­mires it in­tensely.

All art is quite use­less.

Os­car Wilde.

In the wild struggle for ex­ist­ence, we want to have some­thing that en­dures, and so we fill our minds with rub­bish and facts, in the silly hope of keep­ing our place.

men feel­ing a nat­ural in­stinct of ter­ror about pas­sions and sen­sa­tions that seem stronger than them­selves, and that they are con­scious of shar­ing with the less highly or­gan­ized forms of ex­ist­ence