Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde

"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."

"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."