Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

All women are rebels.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.