On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.