The Importance of Being Earnest: The Original 1895 Unabridged And Complete Edition (Oscar Wilde Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

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.

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

Just fell to my knees at McDonald's

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance.

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t write them down, I should probably forget all about them.

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

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age.