"The English have a miraculous power of..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.”

“What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?”

“I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.”

“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”

“To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.”

“What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.”

“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”

“We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?”