Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.
Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
Some people always know the price, but not the value
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
