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.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.