Character: Sir Robert Chiltern

I never knew what fear was. Now I know. As if an icy hand gripping your heart. As if it beats in a vacuum, weaker and weaker... that's about to stop...

True love forgives all crimes except crimes against love. She sanctifies all life, but life without love. Such is the love of a man. It is wider, kinder, more humane than the love of women. Do you think that make us ideal. And you only create false idols. You me created for yourself a false idol. But I had not the courage to come down, show you my wounds, to admit their weaknesses.

- ... sure, she's got a past.
- Like most beautiful women.

- Yes, people really would have tried to call it the most horrific words. In this there is no doubt.
And these are the same people who every day do things much worse. Who have secrets worse than mine.
- That's why they love to expose other people's secrets. It distracts attention from their own.

Anyone who has ambition, is forced to fight with weapons of his time. The weapons of our time - money. Idol of our time - money. In order to in our time, something to achieve position, power, you need money. Money, money - at any cost!

Luxury is only the background only enhance the play, and the only reason to live is power, power over other men, power over the world, is the highest pleasure available to man, and the only joy that never grows old.

Marriage without love is terrible. However, there is something worse than marriages in which there is absolutely no love - marriages in which love is but one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but only on one side; and where one of the hearts bound to be broken.
(Marriage without love is terrible. But there is still something worse: a marriage in which love is present, but only on one side; loyalty, but only on one side. In this marriage of two hearts but one thing is sure broken.)

If the gods want to punish someone, they fulfill his desires.
Another option:
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

- You can't judge a man only by his past.
Our past is who we are. How else to judge people if not by their past?

- I haven't changed. But circumstances are sometimes stronger than human.
- No circumstances can be stronger than moral law.