Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.