The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.