A Few of Oscar Wilde's Aphorisms

• The one duty we have to history is to rewrite it.
• There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
• Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But invariably they want it back in such very small change.
• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But...it is better to be good than to be ugly.
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
• I can resist everything except temptation.
• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
• Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it.
• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
• A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.