One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

I never change, except in my affections.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.