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.

Talent borrows, genius steals!

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.