We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.
The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
I can resist everything except temptation.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly; but I don’t see any chance of it just at present.
