The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.