We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Oscar WildeAll authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
Oscar WildeI regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar WildeThe nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
Oscar Wilde