The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.