Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.