The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.