On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

True friends stab you in the front.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

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

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much