A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.