Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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