“LADY BRACKNELL
Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

“He who desires everything, has nothing.”
Chi tutto vuole, nulla non ha.
Act I., Scene II. — (Lucido Tolto).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 273.
I Lucidi (published 1549)

A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 51
1910s

Speech at St. Jame’s Hall, Picadilly, London, on 19th May 1870.
“Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.”
El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.
Voces (1943)

Source: 1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849), p. 60