The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you. – Oscar Wilde
One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde
The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde
Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral; they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted. – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin