Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

All art is at once surface and symbol.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.