My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.