I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.