We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was.

Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having. I don't feel that, Lord Henry. No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.

I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

We live in a world when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes

Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them.