The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.