I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his abi... - Oscar Wilde

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."

"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!"

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."