But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.