Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.