"Cultivated leisure is the aim of man...." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”

“To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.”

“No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.”

“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.”

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

“If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.”

“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.”

“Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.”

“What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.”