To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only...
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night
Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that oflove touches it
Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ev...
Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the...
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form...
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is only by realising what I am that I have found comfort of any kind. Now I am advised by...
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious...
What are the unreal things, but the passions that once burned one like fire? What are the incredible things, but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things? The things...