Algernon Quotes

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

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”