When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.