Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.