A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope