“To be a serviceable man has always seemed to me something quite repulsive.”

“In the subconscious you fuck ugly people, never beautiful, because the libido always desires something repulsive.”

“The rules always seem to be in the service of someone else.”

“The truth is, through all these years of public service, the “service” part has always come easier to me than the “public” part.”

“I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.”

“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.”

“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”

“There is something more in life… No man has reached the maximum capacity for self-preservation and growth, no man has attained the full measure of conscious spiritual existence, no man has entered into the deepest communion with God or is entirely devoted to his service.”

“I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.”

“It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”