Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.