What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in dis... - Oscar Wilde

"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."

"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."

"Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire."

"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!"