You’re quite perfect, Miss Fairfax… Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
The only real people are the people who never existed.
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Many a woman has a past, but I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.