I'm too old to know everything
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secre...
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.
But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there:For flowers have been known to heal A common man's despair.
So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.