To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.