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“She is not a subject.”

After claiming he could give a speech on any subject at a moment's notice, and being challenged by Lord Ribblesdale to talk about the Queen.
Quoted in The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill (1908)

“Divorces are made in Heaven.”

Algernon, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.”

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

“Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.”

Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Prayer+must+never+be+answered+if+it+is+it+ceases+to+be+prayer+and+becomes+correspondence%22&pg=PA106#v=onepage (1952)

“Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.”

The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1954)

“Those whom the gods love grow young.”

A humorous reference to Menander's "ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος [whom the gods love dies young]".
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)