Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.