The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.