Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist".
"He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
"People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination."
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."
"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret."
