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Oscar Wilde: Do you really...

Oscar Wilde: Do you really...

Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible...

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Oscar Wilde: I never travel...

Oscar Wilde: I never travel...

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the...

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Oscar Wilde: I can sympathize...

Oscar Wilde: I can sympathize...

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Source: The Picture of Dorian...

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Oscar Wilde: It is confession,...

Oscar Wilde: It is confession,...

It is confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Source: The Picture of...

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Oscar Wilde: How strange a...

Oscar Wilde: How strange a...

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants...

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Oscar Wilde: A person who,...

Oscar Wilde: A person who,...

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Jewels five-words long<br>That...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Jewels five-words long
That...

Jewels five-words long
That on the stretched forefinger of all Time
Sparkle for...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

No little lily-handed Baronet he,
A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,
A lord of fat prize-oxen and of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: She left the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: She left the...

She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro' the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So much to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So much to...

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: There is no...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: There is no...

There is no joy but calm!

Source: The Lotos-Eaters, `Choric Song', 2
-- Alfred,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This gray spirit...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This gray spirit...

This gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis held that...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis held that...

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

Source: In Memoriam, CXIII
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alexander Pope: The worst of...

Alexander Pope: The worst of...

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Source: Imitations of Horace, bk. 1,...

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Alexander Pope: Satire's my weapon,...

Alexander Pope: Satire's my weapon,...

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.


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Alexander Pope: To endeavor to...

Alexander Pope: To endeavor to...

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a...

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Alexander Pope: Tis education forms...

Alexander Pope: Tis education forms...

Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.


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Alexander Pope: Why did I...

Alexander Pope: Why did I...

Why did I write? what sin to me unknown
Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?


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Mark Twain: Barring that natural...

Mark Twain: Barring that natural...

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest...

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