It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.