Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.