"The only thing worse than quoting me,..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”

“The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.”

“Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.”

“I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.”

“What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor”

“Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?”

“Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”