Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

California is an Italy without its art.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.