Selected quotes after the jump from Oscar Wilde.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them as much.

Good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm that they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Source: Andrea Hulse's collection of Oscar Wilde quotations.