LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.

Don't quench the courageous spirit you begun with

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

A president cant go to every memorial service.

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.