The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.