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.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.