Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Everything popular is wrong.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

I can resist everything except temptation.

True friends stab you in the front.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Who, being loved, is poor?

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.