A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.