JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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.

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

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

The beauty of life is sharing life.

The wilderness is a place that every believer has to experience to be molded for their divine purpose.

I almost trust her to burn the bridges while standing at the cliff herself. She hardly agrees to be on the same page as others, either ahead of all or all in a different book.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something, because you can!

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.