We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
The world is simply divided into two classes – those who believe the incredible, like the public – and those who do the improbable.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating…
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.[The Canterville Ghost]
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.[The Sphinx Without a Secret]
