You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

I never change, except in my affections.

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.