Life is a great disappointment.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.