If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

I can resist everything except temptation.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.