Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

And if it feels good... Feel it!

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.