Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.