The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.