In married life three is company and two none.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.