My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought: