Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.