Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.