“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.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

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

“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.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”