You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.