A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.