Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.