The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.