The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.