“When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.'Where do bad Americans go?''They stay in America'.”

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”

“Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.''It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.”

“What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.”

“American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.”

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

“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”