The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Oscar WildeConscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Oscar WildeChildren begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar WildeBehind 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. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.
Oscar Wilde