A flower blossoms for its own joy.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?