The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

The world belongs to the discontented.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.