“It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

“Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.”

“All bad art is the result of good intentions.”

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”