“and I am quite sure that they are worth being painted.”
“I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.”
“I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.”
“Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.”
“He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am.”
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”