Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.