Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

He said - all above quoting Oscar Wilde