Aristocratii

Victorian Era London saw prohibition against sexuality from many directions. Despite his popularity in the artistic world, Wilde’s homosexual relationships led to his jailing. The verdict was gross indecency. The result was exile under a post-prison pseudonym: Sebastian Melmoth.

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.”

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

“When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I’m old - I know it is.”

“When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.”

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

“To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.”

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

“To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.”

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

“He hasn’t an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.”

“A true friend stabs you in the front.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”