Riah

“The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

“Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“One sometime feels that it is only with a front of brass and a lip of scorn that one can get through the day at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis