Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

Mrs. Arbuthnot: [quoting Lord Illingworth from the first act] Children love their parents. Eventually they come to judge them. Rarely do they forgive them.

Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singu…

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a…

Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.