E(a)rnest lines

I am dying, as I have lived, beyond my means. ~Oscar Wilde

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girl don't think it right."

"The truth is rarely and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility."

"The timing is never perfect."

"A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing."

"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."

"Land has ceased to be either a profit or pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents from keeping it up."

"If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make it up for it by being always immensely over-educated."

'Relations are simply tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die."

"It is awfully hardwork doing nothing."

"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."

"All good books are a snare."

"By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation."

"No married man is ever attractive except to his wife."

"It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduce is almost unbearable."

"Men are so cowardly, aren't they?"

"Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, physical weakness in the old."

"What is a selfish person? A selfish person is surely one who seeks to keep his joys and sorrows to himself."

"The heart has its wisdom as well as the head."