There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.
Oscar WildeMarriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Oscar WildeIf you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
Oscar WildeI wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the worldโฆ And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
Oscar Wilde