To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.