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
There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink. – Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman