The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.