Wilde

In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants. The other is getting it.

We all need love. But which of us can give it?

A university education is an admirable thing, of course... so long as you remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught.

— Do you love me?
— I feel like a city that's been under siege for 20 years. Suddenly the gates are thrown open and the citizens come pouring out to breathe the air and walk the fields and pluck the wildflowers. I feel relieved.

Where your life leads you, you must go.

People have never understood the courage he needed to be himself.

It's perfectly monstrous how people say things behind one's back that are absolutely true.

Remember, a gentleman should take a bath at least once a year.

Platonic love is the highest form of affection known to man, of course.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. And we find ourselves looking with dull heart of stone at the tress of gold-flecked hair that we had once so wildly worshipped and so madly kissed.

The Christians go around pretending they know who God is and how He works.

I can believe in anything, provided it's incredible. That's why I intend to die a Catholic, though I couldn't possibly live as one.