Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.