The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray.
Punctuality is the thief of time
The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, an...
Hearts Live By Being Wounded
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of p...
But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which to live really, p...
Irony is wasted on the stupid
Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.
The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get o...
Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.