I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.