Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.