AIH quotes

• Lors Goring - ‘To love oneself is…?


  the beginning of a lifelong romance‘
• A quote for the Triumph of love?

  ’illumines the Triumph of love’ end of Act 1
• Mabel ‘All I want…?

  is to be… to be… oh! a real wife to him’
• Robert ‘You whom…?

  I have so wildly loved- have ruined mine!’
• Gertrude - ‘She is…?

  incapable of understanding an upright nature like my husbands!’
• Robert - 'when the...?

  gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers'
• Robert - 'Optimist..?


  or Pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays'
• 'The God...?

  of this century is wealth'
• Lord Caversham - 'Private information...?


  is practically the source of every large modern fortune'
• Mabel - 'I love London society! ...?

  I think it has immensely improved. It is now entirely composed of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics'.
• Lord Caversham - 'Sick...?

  of London society.'
• Cheveley and Robert - 'Let...?

  us call things by their proper names'
• Cheveley - 'I am not...?

  in the mood tonight for silver twilights or rose-pink dawns. I want to talk business'
• Goring - 'could have

  been so weak, Robert, as to yield to such a temptation as Baron Arnheim held out to you'
• Robert - 'To stake...


  all of one's life on a single moment ... there is no weakness in that.'
• Robert - 'If I...

  am hounded by public life?'
• Robert - 'power over other...


  men, power over the world was the one thing worth having'
• Robert - 'you have...

  never been poor'
• Robert - 'I will give...


  you any sum of money you want'
• Cheveley - 'Even you are not rich...


  enough to buy back your past. No man is'
• Gertrude - 'I have never...

  admired him so much before. He is finer than even I thought him'
• Goring - 'it is the growth...

  of the moral sense in women that makes marriage such a hopeless, one-sided instituion'
• Goring (about women) - 'they can discover...

  everything but the obvious'
• Lord Caversham - 'if the country...

  does not go to the dogs or the Radicals, we shall have you Prime Minister, someday'
• Gertrude + Goring = 'a man's life...

  is of more value than a womans'
• Goring - 'it is love...

  and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world'
• Gertrude - 'she was untruthful...

  dishonest, an evil influence on everyone whose trust or feelings she could win'
• Cheveley - 'the same...

  sin binds us'
• Mabel - '[fascinating...

  tyranny of youth]'
• Lady Markby - 'everybody turns...

  out to be someone else'
• Cheveley - 'men can be...

  analyzed, women merely adored'
• Goring - '[he is fond...

  of being misunderstood]'
• Mrs. Marchmont - 'our husbands never...


  appreciate anything in us. We have to go to others for that'
• Lady Basildon - 'men are...

  grossly material, grossly material'
• Cheveley - 'It is your splendid...

  position that makes you so vulnerable'
• Gertrude - 'Factory acts...

  female inspectors, the eight hours' bill, the parliamentary franchise'
• Robert - 'no one should...

  be entirely judged by their past'
• Cheveley - 'politics are...

  my only pleasure'
• Cheveley - 'morality is simply...


  the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike'
• Mabel - 'I delight...


  in your bad qualities'