I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.