Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.