There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

America is one long expectoration.

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.