Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed. – Oscar Wilde
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. – Oscar Wilde
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster