The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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

I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.