Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.