I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.