Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.