One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.