Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.