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

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.