Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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.