Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist".
"He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."