The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art