A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.