We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde · Spoken by Lord Darlington in Act III of the play.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde · Lord Darlington's line in Act I of the comedy.

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I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

Martin Luther King Jr. · From his last presidential address to the SCLC, Atlanta, 16 August 1967; the popular "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear" splices this with a line a few sentences later, "hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love."

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Attributed to Maya Angelou · Her most shared line on love, but no book, speech or interview has been found for it; quote collectors list it as "original not located".

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

Helen Keller · Her answer on the vaudeville circuit in the early 1920s when an audience member asked whether she wanted her sight more than anything else in the world.

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.”

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.”