To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

Men become old, but they never become good.