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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Who, being loved, is poor?
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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