353 quotes
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
In married life, three is company, and two is none.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that is is not.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
Oscariana (1907)
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)