By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

A kiss may ruin a human life

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.