Character: Lord Goring

... great success always requires a certain unscrupulousness. Ambition is always somewhat unscrupulous in the means. If a man is determined to get to the top, nothing will stop him.

Why do parents always come at a bad time? It must be some miscalculation of nature.

... One of those very modern women who believe that new revelation of sins to them as well as a new hat, and sported both in new clothes, doing their daily exercise in the Park at five thirty in the evening. I am sure she adores scandals, and if it is something in them and are not satisfied, so that's just what they have it is not enough.

Generally speaking, the British can not stand, if the person insists that he is right, but love, if he repents of his mistakes.

I prefer courage. Geniuses now a dime a dozen. And courage is rare.

I constantly told what not to. Must be because usually I say what I think. And in our time it is risky.

Oh no, I'm not a romantic. To do this, I'm not old enough. Give the romance of elders.

If we men married the women we stand badly if we had to!

- ... 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.

The sacrifice should be prohibited by law - it corrupts those who sacrifice. They always go astray.

I like to talk about anything - it's the only thing I understand.
(I love talking about nothing, father. It's the only thing I know anything.)

Youth is not a fashion. Youth is an art.

The appointment of women not to judge men, but to forgive, when they need forgiveness. Her thing to pardon and not to punish.