I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

Everything popular is wrong.

Everything popular is wrong.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he...

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he...

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Hearts live by being wounded.

Hearts live by being wounded.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect...

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect...

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

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

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of...

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of...

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is...

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is...

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of...

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of...

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels...

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an...

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an...