"I never approve of anything. If one can't be brilliant, one should at least be confused."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."