Be yourself, because others are already taken.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

I never change, except in my affections.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.