The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

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

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.