When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

"She is still décolletée," he answered, ..., "and when she is in a very smart gown she looks like an édition de luxe of a bad French novel ... When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief."

Modern Morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

But there was no motive power in experience.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's selfm and one always ends by deceiving others.

"How dreadful!" cried Lord Henry. "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."

- "They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris," chuckled Sir Thomas ...
- "Really? And where do bad Americans go to when they die?" inquired the Duchess.
- "They go to America," murmured Lord Henry

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.