"Learned conversation is either the affectation of..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”

“Life is a great disappointment.”

“Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.”

“If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.”

“Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.”

“Old age by nature is rather talkative.”

“Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.”

“There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.”

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”