The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.