Oscar Wilde revived

another one on rather than by him:

“Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

"The eye of man does not gaze upon that which it sees, rather upon that for which it yearns."

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."

Not exactly Wilde, but I think it serves anyway:

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. Thomas Hood

The best by Oscar Wilde in my opinion:

"To be born, or at any rate bred, in a handbag, whether it has handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution."
- Lady Bracknell from "The Importance of Being Earnest"

The basis of optimism is sheer terror

Oscar Wilde revived?

Damn, modern medicine sure has come along way.

“And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.”

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens
Dickens, but still one of the people critical of what people have made of Christianity

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

I think this is appropriate to the season:

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

another Fitting for the Occasion:

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."