“Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression”

“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious.""Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.""Nobody ever does.”

“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”

“Ah! I have talked quite enough for today," said Lord Henry, smiling. "All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”