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 is never advisable.

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

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for ye…

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.

At every party there are two kinds of people, those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

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

Some women are married to losers. I guess I just got lucky when I met Steve, I just got lucky. I see some of these women with their husbands in the grocery sto…