When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving ones self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde
You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. – Oscar Wilde
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. – Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman