To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.