The Importance of Being Earnest

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stock-brokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

I would strongly advise you, Mr. Worthing, to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before the season is quite over.

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

Science is always making wonderful improvements in things.

In married life three is company and two is none.