The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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 studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

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

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it