Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.