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

Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!

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