As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.