One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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