A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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 WildeWickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Oscar WildeIf there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Oscar WildeNowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
Oscar Wilde