I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.