Oscar Wilde

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The one advantage of playing with fire...is_x000D_ _x000D_ that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

America is one long expectoration.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg