An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.