You must have some whipping post, and he's as good as another.

But he shilly-shallies about that girl.

I hate all that stuff like poison." "All men are not so--abrupt shall I say ?--as you were." "I had something to say, and I said it.

When I had said it a dozen times, I got to have it believed.

He doesn't say it as though he meant to have it believed." "You were always in earnest, Oswald." "I was." "To the extent of the three minutes which you allowed yourself.