The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.