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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Cecily: “Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare”
Algernon: “They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.”
Cecily: “Oh, I don’t think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn’t know what to talk to him about.

Oscar Wilde

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