To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Genius is born-not paid

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.