The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
It is perfectly monstrous,? he said, at last, ’the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
Its a beautiful woman’s fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
When good Americans die, they go to Paris.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.