A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.