To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.