Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.