Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.

I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own read more

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.