The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

The letters shall be of a rare design; the commas will be sunflowers, and the semicolons pomegranates

Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.

It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

“ Ay,” answered the man, “ and the name of the rich brother is Cain.

Beauty, that gives to creation its universal and aesthetic element, makes the critic a creator in his turn, and whispers of a thousand different things which were not present in the mind of him who carved the statue or painted the panel or graved the gem

There is only one thing worse than injustice, and that is justice without her sword in her hand. When right is not might it is evil.

there is nothing I wouldn’t do—except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community.

“Because never, and in no place, have I been able to imagine it,” answered the Man.

And the young man looked up and recognized Him and made answer, “But I was dead once and you raised me from the dead, what else should I do but weep ?