Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

Life is too short to learn German

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!