A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?