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

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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?

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.