Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country