It is sweet to dance to violinsWhen love and life are fair:To dance to flutes, to dance to lutesIs delicate and rare:
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound....
I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd val...
Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only...
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.