What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

I never change, except in my affections.