Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.