She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.