“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.”

“The trouble with Marxism is that it takes up too many evenings.”

“MRS ALLONBY Have you tried a good reputation?LORD ILLINGWORTH It is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.”

“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.”

“Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.”

“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”