If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments