Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)