American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

I can resist everything except temptation.