Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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?

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.