"I must decline your invitation owing to..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.”

“Fantastic shadows of birds”

“Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.”

“A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.”

“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”

“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”

“We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.”

“We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.”

“If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.”