The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.