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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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I'm too old to know everything

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accu...more

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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

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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...more

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.