I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.