Oscar Wilde

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.

None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.