Lady Windermere's Fan

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes

A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people’s.

Fortunately it is all on the surface. Just where good qualities should be.

’s most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they’re alone

has that uncommon thing called common sense

LORD DARLINGTON. I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend

And besides, if a woman really repents, she has to go to a bad dressmaker, otherwise no one believes in her