It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

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

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

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

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.