"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Music is the perfect type of art.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

It was only in the theatre that I lived

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night