The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.