I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.