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?

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The statement that 'abortions is a women's choice over her body' is a half-truth, because there are two heart+beats, not one.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.