You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.