This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

Life is too short to learn German