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?

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.