Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Oscar WildeAh! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
Oscar WildeI should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
Oscar WildeMiss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde