Relationships and Family

Something was dead in each of us,

He did not wear his scarlet coat,

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

Why don’t you come up sometime, and see me?

Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori

Nunc scio quid sit Amor.

Latet anguis in herba.

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Though lovers be lost love shall not;

We have become a grandmother.

I am naturally very sorry to see you go, but understand … your wish to be able to spend more time with your family.

There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

That, Sire, is a question of dates.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

A child should always say what’s true,

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!

O what a tangled web we weave,

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,