In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Bad manners make a journalist.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.