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?

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Youth is the only thing worth having.