The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.