"What is a cynic? A man who..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.”

“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.”

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

“Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.”

“It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.”

“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”

“If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.”

“In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.”

“We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.”