I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

Bad manners make a journalist.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.