When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Oscar WildeModeration is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
Oscar WildeTruth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
Oscar WildeShakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
Oscar Wilde