Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.