It is only shallow people
who do not judge by appearances.

When the gods wish to punish us,
they answer our prayers.

Ah, don’t say you agree with me.
When people agree with me
I always feel that I must be wrong.

Lady Windermere’s Fan

The only thing to do with good advice
is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.

An Ideal Husband

The basis of action is lack of imagination.
It is the last resource of those
who know not how to dream.

in Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon Redux

Life is one fool thing after another
whereas love is two fool things after each other.

I am not young enough to know everything.

—Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.

—James M Barrie

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

—Margot Asquith

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

—Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

—Oscar Wilde

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

—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Too many people nowadays know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

—Elbert Hubbard, Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

The Duchess of Padua, 1883