Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then...
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below the intellect.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden.But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstance...
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...
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.