Oscar Wilde

No one is without flaws but we are still worthy of love.

Flaws • Love

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Knowledge • Perception • Awareness

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

Love • Relationships

The heart was made to be broken.

Love • Relationships • Sadness

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Character • Empathy • Friendship

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Culture • Language • Society

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.

Marriage • Relationships

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Freedom • Improvement • Respect

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Mistakes • Regret • Time

When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance.

Deception • Love • Relationships

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

Ambition • Hope • Inspiration

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Love • Relationships

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Art • Perfection

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Love • Relationships • Romance

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition • Improvement • Motivational

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Desire • Life • Tragedy

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Honesty • Perception • Simplicity

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Friendship • Love • Relationships

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Acceptance • Fairness • Gratitude

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art • Creativity • Perception