The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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.

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.