Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and consequently he always looks absolutely delightful.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

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

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.