Today I am stuck on Oscar Wilde quotes the remind me of certain people, that I'd love to be witless enough to spit at them. I am faaaaaar more decorous than that, so:

YOUKNOWWHO:

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.”"

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

S:

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."

"It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal."

"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."

MYSELF:

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."

"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

L:

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."

"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.'