Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.