It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually..

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May..

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes..

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth..

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life..

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?.

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to t….

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singu….

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them..

The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a ….

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it….

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned..

Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband..

It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or ….

A husband is very much like a house or a horse..

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth..

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by….

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to ….

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily..

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you..

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners..