Oscar Wilde

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.