The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.