Importance Of Being Earnest Quotations | Page 2

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

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