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
Ones real life is so often the life that one does not lead. – Oscar Wilde
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others. – Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – 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