Quotations from the inimitable Oscar Wilde.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

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

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them as much.

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season, you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

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

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.