An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.