Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

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 played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.