The proper school to learn art is not life but art

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

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.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.