Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There... - Oscar Wilde

"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

"A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author."

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"