We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes...
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
Time is a waste of money.
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The long black nights, when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid, are not so black. The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black. There is nothing in the world so black as thy h...
She has form, he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, wit...
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery?LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood.MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last.LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.
MISS PRISMMemory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things r...