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.

One should absorb the color of life.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.