I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.