In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.