Humor e Ironia

I’ve been so preoccupied with what would happen in the event of my death that I’m surprised to find myself still alive.

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Shaw has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like him.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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 years.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

LADY BRACKNELL : A handbag?

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

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately, in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.

In married life three is company and two none.

Why don’t you come up sometime, and see me?

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

It’s not the men in my life that counts—it’s the life in my men.

‘Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!’

I always say, keep a diary and some day it’ll keep you.

Beulah, peel me a grape.

The secret of being a bore … is to tell everything.