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• On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind.
  It becomes a pleasure. WILDE...
• It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist.
  It produced a false impression. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne...
• The good ended happily and the bad ended unhappily.
  That is what fiction means. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne...
• To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune
  to lose both looks like carelessness. -- Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earne...
• Duty, n: What one expects from others. -- Oscar Wilde
• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
  -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), "The Importance of Being Earnest", 1895...
• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
  -- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earne...
• If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind!
  The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation....
• The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived. -- Oscar Wilde