If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.