"Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!”

“To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.”

“Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.”

“Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.”

“It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.”

“Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.”

“If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.”

“The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.”

“Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.”