When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.