Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.It never is, sir.Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
True friends stab you in the front.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.