Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.