Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.