Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.