The sky was pure opal now.

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

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.