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?

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.