If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.