People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.

---Letter from Paris May 1900.

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

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad.People are either charming or tedious.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The more one analyses people, the more all rea sons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called

human nature.

---The Decay of Lying.

Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel certain that they mean something else.

---The Importance of Being Earnest.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing

---The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity.It is their distinguishing characteristic.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications.

---Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Well bred people always stay in exactly the same place as we do.

---The Birthday of the Infanta.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

---An Ideal Husband.

I like persons better than principles and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

---A Woman of No Importance.

People who want to say merely what is sensible should say it to themselves before they come down to breakfast in the morning, never after.

---In Conversation.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.