Oscar Wilde

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

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

True friends stab you in the front.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.