353 quotes
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
The senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.
As a pomegranate, cut in twain,
White-seeded is her crimson mouth.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
An Ideal Husband (1895)
My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Religions die when they are proven to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)