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

Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?