1x Love LG
I leave romance to my seniors
2x Politics SRC
Money gave me exactly what I wanted, power over others
A political life is a noble career
1x Society Mrs C
People are either hunting from husbands or hiding from them
3x Morality Mrs C
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike
My dear Sir Robert, you are a man or the world and you have your price
I have a distinct recollection of Lady Chiltern always getting the good conduct prize
2x Marriage Markby
Nowadays people get married as often as they can, don’t they? It is most fashionable
I forgot, you husband is an exception. Mine is the general rule, and nothing ages a woman so rapidly as having married the general rule.
4x Women LG
But women who have common sense are curiously plain father, aren’t they?
How you women war against each other!
Well she wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a women.
A man’s life is of more value than a woman’s. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. A women’s life revolves around curves of emotion. It is upon lines of intellect that a man’s life progresses.
1x Tension Lord C
Look where your friend Robert Chiltern has got to by probity, hard work and a sensible marriage to a good woman
2x Aestheticism LG
I am the only person of smallest importance in London at present who wears a buttonhole
Youth isn’t an affection. Youth is an art.
2x Politics Mrs C
Politics are my only pleasure.
Sometimes. And sometimes it is a clever game, Sir Robert. And sometimes it is a great nuisance.
2x Love SRC
All lives, save loveless lives, true love should pardon.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need for love.
1x Society Marchmont
It puts one almost on a level with commercial classes, doesn’t it?
3x Morality LG
I don’t like principles, father. I prefer prejudices.
In England a man who can’t talk morality to a large, popular immoral audience is quite over as a serious politician
Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.
1 x Marriage Lord C
That is a matter for me, sir. You would probably make a very poor choice …. there is property at stake.
3x Women Mrs C
Certainly, more women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else
My dear Arthur, women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
Ah! the strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Science can never grapple with the irrational
4x Tension Mrs C
[creeps stealthily]
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert to buy back your past. No man is.
Scandals used to lend charm, or at least interest to a man- now they crush him. And yours is a very nasty scandal.
Don’t do that. I will do anything you want. Anything in the world you want.
1x Aestheticism Mabel
[But she is really like a Tanagra Statuette]
2x Politics LG
My dear father, only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics
1x Love LC
I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love
1x Society LG
Other people a quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
3x Morality SRC
I don’t say I suffered any remorse. I didn’t. Not remorse in the ordinary rather silly sense of the word. But I did pay conscience money many times.
Sooner or later in political life one has to compromise. Every one does
I would to god that I had been able to tell the truth… to live the truth
1x Marriage Marchmont
Our husbands never appreciate us for anything, we have to go to others for that.
1x Women Markby
I assure you that the amount of things I and my poor dear sister were taught not to understand were quite extraordinary. But modern women understand everything.
1x Tension LC
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
1x Aestheticism Mrs C
Men can be analysed, women merely adored.
