Progress is the realization of utopia.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.