All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
~ in The Importance of Being Earnest
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
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I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
~ in Without Feathers
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
I’m not afraid of death. It’s just that I don’t want to be there when it happens.
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Philosophy consists largely of one philosopher arguing that all the others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
