Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
You will always love, and you will always be loved
Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
The moon in her chariot of pearl
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard...
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagina...
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up al...
I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious.Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.Nobody ever does.
How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the ex...
I can resist everything except temptation.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.