I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.