I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.