The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
Oscar WildeWe live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
Oscar WildeAny preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
Oscar WildeYouth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
Oscar WildeIf you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!
Oscar Wilde