As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.