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?

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.