It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.