Oscar Wilde

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Love • Relationships

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

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

Character • Empathy • Friendship

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Science • Success

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Growth • Happiness • Love

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Beauty • Expression • Nature

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education • Knowledge • Learning

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Art • Creativity • Expression

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Age • Life • Money

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Happiness • Personality

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Dreams • Perseverance • Suffering

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Morality • Perception • Shame

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Books • Reading

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Materialism • Philosophy • Skepticism

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Authenticity • Communication • Deception

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Character • Personal Development • Reading

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Acceptance • Authenticity • Growth

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Age • Beliefs • Knowledge