In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Bad manners make a journalist.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.