There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.