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

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.