Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

Every woman is a rebel.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.