Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .