Duty is what one expects from others.

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.