I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

There is nothing that art cannot express.