An Ideal Husband

it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Men easily forget. And I forgive. That is how women help the world. I see that now

I make it a rule never to accept Tommy. That is why he goes on proposing.

, my duty is a thing I never do, on principle. It always depresses me

I am afraid I can't take him with me to Downing Street. It is not the Prime Minster's day for seeing the unemployed

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

he has one of those terribly weak natures that are not susceptible to influence

please don't say such a thing. You are the one person in London I really like to have to listen to me

My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it