A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.