“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.”

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“My dear boy," said Lord Henry, smiling, "anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so absolutely uncivilized. Civilization is not, by any means, an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which men can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate.”

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

“The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.”