Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.