In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

People are either charming or tedious.