In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Don't say I didn't warn you. One of these days you're going to take in a stray that'll really break your heart.”~Ed

He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!