"To get into the best society, nowadays,..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.”

“Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.”

“Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!”

“History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.”

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”

“Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.”

“A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.”

“To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.”

“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.”