Oscar Wilde

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I keep a di­ary in or­der to enter the won­der­ful secrets of my life. If I didn’t write them down, I should prob­ably for­get all about them.

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

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.

There is a lux­ury in self-re­proach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

So I have murdered Sibyl Vane,” said Dorian Gray, half to him­self, “murdered her as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife. Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as hap­pily in my garden.