My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

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.

So you know that all living things share the same energy source and that every action that humans do to nature will affect everything on this planet.

If a man has lost everything he has but his dreams, it means that he has still everything!

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.