Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P