In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.