Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.