LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Time is a most versatile resource. It flies, marches on, works wonders, and will tell. It also runs out.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people.

Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.