We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.