We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Experience is a question of instinct about life.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
I can resist anything except temptation.
Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.
