He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.