I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
Oscar WildeJust to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.
Oscar WildeI hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Oscar WildeYou know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
Oscar WildeThe worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
Oscar WildeShe is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
Oscar Wilde