It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.