We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.