We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Oscar WildeEducation is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
Oscar WildeEvery American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Oscar WildeThe nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
Oscar WildeThere are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.
Oscar Wilde