I am sick of them.

Why, the good woman thinks that I have nothing to do but to write cheques for her silly fads." "All right, Uncle George, I'll tell her, but it won't have any effect.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity.

It is their distinguishing characteristic." The old gentleman growled approvingly and rang the bell for his servant.

Lord Henry passed up the low arcade into Burlington Street and turned his steps in the direction of Berkeley Square.
So that was the story of Dorian Gray's parentage.

Crudely as it had been told to him, it had yet stirred him by its suggestion of a strange, almost modern romance.