Lord Henry Quotes:

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

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.40, Prestwick House Inc

topic: Hands, Verbs, Lord Henry, Duchess

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.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

topic: People, Buttons, Lord Henry

What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.192, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Love, Men, People, Being Faithful, Lord Henry

in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1883). “Shakespeare's King Henry V”

topic: Kings, Stars, Son, Lord Henry, France And England

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Men, Thinking, Doe, Lord Henry