When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving ones self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. – Oscar Wilde
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith