JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.