"Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.”

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.”

“The poorest people are the sweetest people.”

“Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.”

“What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?”

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”

“The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.”