What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.