Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.