Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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.

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.