“It would be more impressive if it flowed the other way (Commenting on Niagara Falls)”

“Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.”

“Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.”

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”

“Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?”

“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!”

“There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.”