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

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)