My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.