Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

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.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

There are strange hells within the minds war made.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

The media loves nothing more than when there is a racial scandal or something. Racism, bigotry, these are just such hot button issues, and the media loves it.

Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

Don't feel like you have to do and be everything.

This thing, reconciliation, isn't perfect, but we also must have hope. Without hope, there is nothing. So let's hope.