“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”

“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I bel...”

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”

“The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upp...”