My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or... - Oscar Wilde

"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."

"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

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

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."