I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

I am not a role model.

If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

The untrodden path is choked by the weeds of tradition. Be not afraid to cut through.

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.