"Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!"

"I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers."

"... truth was a mortal enemy of beauty."

"Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories."

"Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country," [Wilde] said laughing, "so education is the curse…"

"Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been…"

"My dear Duke, I know nothing of the joys of homo-sexuality. You must speak to my friend Oscar about that. And yet, if…"

"Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience."

"Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks other people have none…"

"The pleasure of being with you is in the clash of personality, the intellectual battle, the war of ideas. To survive …"