LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.