-We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)
-Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
-Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
-True friends stab you in the front.
-How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
-The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
-The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
-There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-I am not young enough to know everything.
-A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
-Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation.
-A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
-Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
-Bad artists always admire each other's work.
-Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
-The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
-I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me. (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)
-Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
-Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
-The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
-One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
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