#10 – “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
#9 – “If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
#8 – “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
#7 – “Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”
#6 – “Oh! I don’t think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn’t know what to talk to him about.”
#5 – “I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.”
#4 – “My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!”
#3 – “You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.”
#2 – “I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.”
#1 – “To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”
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