Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.