“Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.”

“Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.”

“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”

“Lots of people act well, but very few people talk well, which shows that talking ismuch the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also.”

“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?”

“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.”

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”