A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Oscar Wilde

"The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study."

"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."

"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."