Ones real life is so often the life that one does not lead. – Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde

Ones real life is so often the life that one does not lead. – Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. – Oscar Wilde
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar Wilde
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011