Lady Windermere's Fan: Quotes

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• "No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

  Lord Darlington · Act III

• "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

  Lord Darlington · Act III

• "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

  Mr Dumby · Act III

• "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

  Mr Dumby · Act III

• "Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit."

  The Duchess of Berwick · Act I

• "One pays for one's sin, and then one pays again, and all one's life one pays."

  Mrs Erlynne · Act III

• "I can resist everything except temptation."

  Lord Darlington · Act I

• "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

  Cecil Graham and Lord Darlington · Act III

• "Because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."

  Lord Darlington · Act I