Quelle atroce invention que celle du bourgeois, n'est-ce pas?

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.