I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.