Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.

Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the read more

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.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.