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.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Any place that we love becomes our world.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.