Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.