I can resist everything except temptation.
Lord Darlington says it to Lady Windermere in the first act, just after he has called her “a fascinating Puritan”. The play opened at the St James’s Theatre in London in February 1892 and was Wilde’s first stage success.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, / The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.