The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

Genius is born-not paid