The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.