Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century