Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

There's no sin but stupidity.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."