Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.