Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.