When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

Everything popular is wrong.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.