Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.