When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.