"The Governor was strong uponThe Regulation Act:The..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty”

“The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.”

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.”

“It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.”

“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”

“But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.”

“I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.”

“The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.”

“I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.”