Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.