Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.