Oscar Wilde

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

There are times when sorrow seems to be the only truth.

For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.