I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.