"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike"
"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy"
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all"
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit"
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train"
"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds"
"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion"
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there"
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes"
"Biography lends to death a new terror"
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament"
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it"
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint"
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction"
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all"
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies"
"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her"
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal"
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally"
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world"
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling"
"All art is quite useless"
"Alas, I am dying beyond my means"
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same"
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship"
"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular"
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied"
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known"
"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing"
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing"
"Everything popular is wrong"
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching"
"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future"
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community"
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much"
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world"
"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life"
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months"
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead"
"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability"
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance"
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection"
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability"
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being"
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works"
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess"
"Only the shallow know themselves"
"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly"
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist"
"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty"
