Quote #144
Mrs. Arbuthnot: [quoting Lord Illingworth from the first act] Children love their parents. Eventually they come to judge them. Rarely do they forgive them.
More from Oscar Wilde
- The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
- Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
- I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy.
- Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
- Lord Illingworth: I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
- The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
- Now-a-days it is only the unreadable that occurs.
- Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.