I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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.

To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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

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

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

Only the shallow know themselves.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.