“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

“Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.”

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.”

“I drink to separate my body from my soul.”

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”

“To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon”