What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.