The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.