Oscar Wilde

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.