I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.