Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks