I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest. - Oscar Wilde

An individual who has to make things for the use of others, and with reference to their wants and their wishes, does not work with interest, and consequently cannot put into his work what is best in him. Upon the other hand, whenever a community or a powerful section of a community, or a government of any kind, attempts to dictate to the artist what he is to do, Art either entirely vanishes, or becomes stereotyped, or degenerates into a low and ignoble form of craft.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.