Oscar Wilde
Dramatist
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1854–1900
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Life is too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.