If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

The secret of life is in art.