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.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.