You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

True friends stab you in the front.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.