I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.