Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think…

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.

Quelle atroce invention que celle du bourgeois, n'est-ce pas?

When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, 'the neighbourhood in which this contemptible …

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.