I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.