Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.