“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”

“In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.”

“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.”

“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.”