Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.