Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.