All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Authority is quite degrading.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.