The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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 only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.