It is what you read when you don't have to that determines w... - Oscar Wilde

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."

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

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"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."