There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
There is no sin except stupidity.
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
Only love can keep anyone alive...
LADY BRACKNELLAlgernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
Men know life too early women know life too late.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.