Lord Goring, dressed in the height of fashion…
-Lord Goring
She invariably find it out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
-Lord Goring
That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people’s secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
-Lady Markby
Ah, I frogot, your husband is an exception. Mine is the general rule, and nothing ages a woman so rapidly as having married the general rule
-Mrs. Cheveley
Morality is simply an attitude we adopt towards the people whom we personally dislike.
-Lady Markby
John was not so painfully personal in his observations, and a man on the question of dress is always ridiculous, is he not?
-Mrs. Cheveley
Oh, no! I think men are the only authorities on dress.
-Mrs. Cheveley
My dear Arthur, women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
-Lord Goring
Women are not meant to judge us, but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon, not punishment, is their mission.
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A man’s life is of more value than a woman’s. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. A woman’s life revolves in curves of emotions.
-Lord Goring
I don’t like principles, farther. I prefer prejudices.
-Lord Goring
My dear farther, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.