Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

A mutual misunderstanding.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry