“In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.”

“How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!”

“Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.”

“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.”

“Those whom the gods love grow young.”

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

“America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.”