LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, 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.

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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

Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing.

We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self.

A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.