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?

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.