Oscar Wilde

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.