"It is a very poor consolation to..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.”

“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”

“There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.”

“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.”

“Law never made men a whit more just.”

“Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.”

“You cannot make a cheap palace.”

“The stream is always purer at its source.[Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]”

“If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.”