If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
Oscar WildeThe only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.
Oscar WildeDo you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar WildeIt is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
Oscar WildeThe public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.
Oscar Wilde