"In England ... education produces no effect..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)”

“My wish isn't to meaneverything to everyonebut something to someone.”

“The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.”

“Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.”

“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

“He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”

“The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”

“Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.”

“The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.”