“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

“I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.”

“His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.”

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”

“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless.”

“The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.”