Man is many things, but he is not rational.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.