No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.