“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious.""Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.""Nobody ever does.”

“What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.”

“My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”