"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on Hypocrisy
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"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Advice
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"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Happiness
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"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. on Madness
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"There is a remedy for everything; it is called death."

Proverb, Portuguese on Death and Dying
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"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on Death and Dying
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"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on Death and Dying
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"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on Faults
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on Fashion
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"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

Muste, A. J. on Peace
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on Fanatics and Fanaticism
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"The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do."

Perez, Rosie on Adversity
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"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates on Feminism
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"The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."

Anthony, Susan B. on Feminism
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

Wilde, Oscar on Food and Eating
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on Forgiveness
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely."

Wilde, Oscar on Function
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

Wilde, Oscar on Genius
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"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

Wilde, Oscar on Genius
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"Ambition is the last refuge of failure."

Wilde, Oscar on Ambition
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on Goals
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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Wilde, Oscar on Gossip
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on Happiness
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"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."

Wilde, Oscar on History and Historians
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"Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K."

Mcevoy, J. P. on Work
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"The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife."

Connolly, Cyril on Wives
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"Youth has become a class."

Vadim, Roger on Youth
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"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time."

Fleming, Ian on Sex
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"I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear."

Allen, Woody on Death and Dying
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"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Allen, Woody on Death and Dying
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"I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member."

Allen, Woody on Club
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

Allen, Woody on Skepticism
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"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things."

Allen, Woody on Science and Scientists
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"My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else."

Allen, Woody on Regret
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"Marriage is the death of hope."

Allen, Woody on Marriage
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"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."

Coward, Noel on Memory
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Allen, Woody on Disillusion
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

Allen, Woody on Hollywood
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."

Seymore, Cray on Memory
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