“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”

“Pray do! I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.”

“You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions new thoughts new ideas. I am different but you must not like me less. I am changed but you must always be my friend.”

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”

“I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.”

“You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”