No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.