"I won't belong to a club that..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

“Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.”

“To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”

“Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.”

“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”

“Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.”

“A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.”

“Seek freedom from the conformity of styles”

“The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”