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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!