We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

All women are rebels.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.