Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.