I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.
I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?