Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.