A mutual misunderstanding.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.