Authority is quite degrading.

Bad manners make a journalist.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.