The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

Everything popular is wrong.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.