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?
So lets knock a couple back and make some noise
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!