Oscar Wilde

Divorces are made in heaven.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

No gentleman ever has any money.

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

Outcasts always mourn.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.