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.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.