“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

— Oscar Wilde · Love quote

Writer · 1854 – 1900

Irish playwright, poet and author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, famed for his wit and epigrams.

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

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.