We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. Oscar Wilde

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work’s the curse of the drinking classes.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau’s assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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.