Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
One should always be a little improbable.
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.