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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes,
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Gwendolen. I never change, except in my affections. Cecily. What a noble nature you have, Gwendolen!
