I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.