The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
People are either born hosts or born guests.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.