Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.