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 modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.