To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

Education is an admirable thing.