I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.