Everything that is popular is wrong.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.