She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.