- Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. [The Importance of Being Earnest].
- It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. [The Importance of Being Earnest].
- It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. [The Importance of Being Earnest].
- There is no sin except stupidity. [The Critic as Artist].
- When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. [The Critic as Artist].
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. [The Picture of Dorian Gray].
- My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. [Lady Windermere's Fan].
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. [Lady Windermere's Fan].
- Yet each man kills the thing he loves. [The Ballad of Reading Gaol].
- The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. [A Woman of No Importance].
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