Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.