I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
I drink to separate my body from my soul.
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Wisdom comes with winters.
The great events of the world take place in the brain...
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
I like talking to a brick wall- it’s the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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.
To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.
I am happy in my prison of passion.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.