“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.”
“The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.”
“One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.”
“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
“What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.”
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”
“How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?”
“Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.”
“He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.”
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
“The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.”
“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
“Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”
“Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
“For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.”
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”
“The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.”
“Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.”
“Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.”