Quotes About Illingworth

#1. Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

Darren Gough

#2. LORD ILLINGWORTH. The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. LADY

Oscar Wilde

#3. MRS ALLONBY Have you tried a good reputation?
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.

Oscar Wilde

#4. LORD ILLINGWORTH. I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS. ALLONBY. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. LORD

Oscar Wilde

#5. LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Oscar Wilde

#7. MRS ALLONBY You have your looking-glass
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. I merely shows me my wrinkles.
MRS ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth.
LORD ILLINGWORTH Then it is in love with you.

Oscar Wilde

#8. MRS. ALLONBY. Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.

Oscar Wilde

#9. LADY HUNSTANTON Lord Illingworth, you don't think that uneducated people should be allowed to have votes?
LORD ILLINGWORTH I think they are the only people who should.

Oscar Wilde

#10. MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery?
LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood.
MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last.
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Define us as a sex.
LORD ILLINGWORTH Sphinxes without secrets.

Oscar Wilde

#12. LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her?
MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove?
LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

Oscar Wilde

#13. LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

John Arlott

#15. still abided to Earth's time, and

Oscar Kerr

#16. It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

Nigel Cole

#17. There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.

Rick Yancey

#18. One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

Joshua Waitzkin

#19. The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.

Kenneth Eade

#20. I want you to know that I'll always be here for you. He paused and then rushed on. When the day comes that Prince Damian breaks your heart and you need a friend to turn to, I'll be right here for you, just like I always have been.

Sara B. Larson

#21. A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

Susan Jane Gilman

#22. For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.

James Payn

#23. Better to separate than never to marry.

Henry Miller

#24. I pay attention to how every makeup artist does everything.

Gigi Hadid

#25. I am aware, of course, that many men do hate the sight of their wife and children. Doctors even have a name for these people: 'anglers'.

Jeremy Clarkson

#26. I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them. And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things.

Oscar Wilde

#27. I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

James Pearse Connelly