Lady Bracknell

• "It is high time that Mr Bunbury makes up his mind whether he was going to live or die"
• "An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant"
• "Both?...that seems like carelessness"
• "The line is immaterial ...I confess I am somewhat bewildered"
• "A hundred and thirthy thousand pounds! And in the funds! Miss Cardew seems to me a most attractive young lady, now that I look at her"
• "He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?"
• "No woman should be accurate about her age. It looks calculating"
• "To miss more might expose us to comment on the platform"
• (baptism) "The idea is grotesque and irreligious!"