The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast,
Wisdom comes with winters
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.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Hearts Live By Being Wounded
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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.
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
Irony is wasted on the stupid
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.