Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.