Emotions and Feelings

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.

In married life three is company and two none.

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.

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

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,

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.

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

I used to be Snow White … but I drifted.

‘Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!’

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

Beulah, peel me a grape.

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

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

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

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

I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

God damn you all: I told you so.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.