Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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?

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it