Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's coversation.

Genius is born, not paid.