How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

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

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?