"The best work in literature is always..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.”

“Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it”

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.”

“Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.”

“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.”

“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.”

“We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!”

“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.”