All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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

Everything that is popular is wrong.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.