The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.