The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.