The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.