I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.