"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."
- Oscar Wilde
"The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be ..."
"Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be calm and ..."
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."
"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
"It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it"
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
"I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after"
- Gyles Brandreth
"Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars."