No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.