When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.