Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Most people are other people.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.