One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are, and will be what they will be.
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
Nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality.
Nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can’t get into it do that.[to Algernon]
