I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.