24 quotes found
“There is nothing like race, is there?”
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.”
“Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.”
“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”
“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love”
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
“You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have...”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
“SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays.MRS CHEVELEY: Oh, I'm neither. Optimism be...”
“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are...”
“I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.”
“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
“I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.”
“A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progress...”
“Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.”
“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.”
“Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations t...”
