One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.