Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.