Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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

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

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.