Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.