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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.