Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

The heart was made to be broken.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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
-An Ideal husband, 1893

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual

A true friend stabs you in the front.

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

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies. It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

None of us can stand the same fault with us.