The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.