“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
Variant: The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde)
Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008.
Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed.
Disputed
“How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?”
Pt. V, st. 14
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
Source: The Duchess of Padua
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Lord Darlington, Act III
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.”
" Explorations in the Great Tuolumne Cañon http://books.google.com/books?id=ZikGAQAAIAAJ&pg=P139", Overland Monthly, volume XI, number 2 (August 1873) pages 139-147 (at page 146); modified and reprinted in John of the Mountains (1938), page 77
1870s
“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
“Marriage is a wonderful institution… but who wants to live in an institution?”
“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Variant: Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
“There is a human tendency to desire and even artificially create a sense of certainty.”
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Variant: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
Source: Wuthering Heights
