No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.