My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.