16th October: Oscar Wilde

The very quotable Oscar Wilde was born this date in 1854. Here are 10 of his sayings:

1. The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
2. Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
3. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
4. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
5. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
6. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
7. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
8. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
9. No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
10. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.