Oscar Wilde

No one is without flaws but we are still worthy of love.

Flaws Love

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Knowledge Perception Awareness

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Love Relationships

The heart was made to be broken.

Love Relationships Sadness

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Character Empathy Friendship

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Culture Language Society

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.

Marriage Relationships

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Freedom Improvement Respect

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Mistakes Regret Time

When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance.

Deception Love Relationships

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

Ambition Hope Inspiration

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Love Relationships

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Art Perfection

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Love Relationships Romance

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition Improvement Motivational

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Desire Life Tragedy

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Honesty Perception Simplicity

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

Friendship Love Relationships

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

Acceptance Fairness Gratitude

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art Creativity Perception