There is no sin except stupidity.

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.