Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.