had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.

I am not going to Egypt,' said the bird. 'I am going to the House of Death.' He kissed the prince and fell down dead at his feet.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

I have known everything, said Lord Henry, with a tired look in his eyes, but I am always ready for a new emotion.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be.

For lo, what changes time can bring! The cycles of revolving years May free my heart from all its fears, And teach my lips a song to sing. Before yon field of trembling gold Is garnered into dusty sheaves, Or ere the autumn's scarlet leaves Flutter as birds adown the wold, I may have run the glorious race, And caught the torch while yet aflame, And called upon the holy name Of Him who now doth hide His face. ARONA.

Lord Henry had not come in yet. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.