“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” 

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” 

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.” 

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

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.” 

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” 

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” 

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” 

“No good deed goes unpunished.” 

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men’s necessities.

The best part of health is fine disposition. It is more essential than talent, even in the works of talent.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy things are sweet-tempered.

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” 

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” 

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” 

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” 

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.” 

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” 

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.” 

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” 

“Every woman is a rebel.” 

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” 

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” 

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.” 

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” 

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

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.” 

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.” 

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.” 

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.” 

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being” 

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.” 

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Life is a journey, not a destination

Life is our dictionary.

The one prudence in life is concentration.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”