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

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

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.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.