Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.

We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.

What is that hair? So yesterday.

The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.

When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.