"Give me the luxuries and I can..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it”

“Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!”

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”

“No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.”

“It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.”

“I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.”

“"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."”

“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.”

“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.”