The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.