Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
~ Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
