LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.