Who is that man over there? I dont know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! — hang him! – 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
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. – Oscar Wilde
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde
The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason. – Anthony Lewis
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 is involved or not (whatever is involved might mean). – Douglas Hofstadter