The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
Don't use big words. They mean so little.
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.