I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

Divorces are made in heaven.