Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

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

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.