Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.[The Canterville Ghost]
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.[The Model Millionaire]
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But on the other hand no one is more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than to be ugly.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
In married life three is company and two is none.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
