To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

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 is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.