Oscar Wilde

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Biography lends to death a new terror.