I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.