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

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.