“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“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.”

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”