Emotions and Feelings

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

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

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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

LADY BRACKNELL : A handbag?

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

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately, in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.

In married life three is company and two none.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,

‘Shoot, if you must, this old grey head,

Urge and urge and urge,

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,

In all directions stretched the great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessions.

I used to be Snow White … but I drifted.

‘Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!’

It’s not the men in my life that counts—it’s the life in my men.

I always say, keep a diary and some day it’ll keep you.

Beulah, peel me a grape.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.