Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.