If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

The only sin is stupidity.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.