I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

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.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.