The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.
A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.