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

"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."

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

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

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

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."