When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.