Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

"Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there."