"The condition of perfection is idleness: the..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

“One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.”

“There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.”

“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”

“The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.”

“He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?”

“If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.”

“It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.”